Women present with heart disease differently than men—yet another way that men and women are different. In this video, HealthMaker Jeff Olgin, MD, a cardiologist at UCSF, explains why cardiac care takes gender into account.
Yeah, you do things differently. In part because women present differently, their symptoms are often different, their EKG changes can be a little different. And most of the textbooks, and classic symptoms were written around men because they were the most prevalent, and that was what was first described.
Jeff Olgin, MD, is a cardiologist and a cardiac electrophysiologist at UCSF. He discusses how heart disease treatment has evolved.
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